TMUX: sleek theme

I have talked about TMUX in my previous post. It is an awesome tool that can increase your productivity exponentially. How ever, it is extremely ugly and distracting if you use the default theme.

It is difficult and very subjective to explain something visual, but I have come up with a simple, minimalist, futuristic and sleek theme that works great whether your terminal supports 256 colors, or only 16.

Do not worry, you can install my theme in less than 15 seconds and enjoy it right away.

Install a theme

TMUX by default loads a user dependent configuration file ~/.tmux.conf. To edit it symply open it with your favorite text editor. For example GEDIT.

$ gedit ~/.tmux.conf

In this file you can edit a lot of stuff and configuration, among them the default key bindings. It goes even a step further: you can write your own TMUX scripts, but we will leave that for another day. For now we will simply paste the following visual configuration into said file and save it. Once you are done, run

$ tmux -f ~/.tmux.conf

This command is needed only the first time you have done changes to the configuration file. From now on tmux will always use your configuration file.

After much googling and testing, it appears that you get this error probably because you are using TMUX version 1.9 (could you please confirm this?). I have version 2.4-1 right now, and I remember I already had version 2.X (can't remember exactly which one) when I wrote this configuration file...

So, the solution appears to be to upgrade TMUX to version 2.4 or above.